Coming Up

The Vaughn Science Lecture will take place on January 31, 2005 at 7:00 pm in the Boardroom with a reception will follow. This annual event serves to highlight scientific research and its ramifications to both undergraduate science majors and the more general audience of non-science students and faculty. This year’s speaker is Dr. Tom Wenzel, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Chemistry at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He won the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Fellows Award in 2002, and he currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of CUR Quarterly, and he was given the J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Education, Analytical Division, American Chemical Society in 1999. Dr. Wenzel served as President of the Council on Undergraduate Research in 1996-1997. In addition to his active undergraduate research program in chemistry, Dr. Wenzel teaches in the Environmental Studies program at Bates, and he offers a course on women in science. His topic is “Right-handed Sugar Doughnuts: Nutritional Food for Undergraduates and their Faculty.”
The Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats are returning to the Curb Event Center on February 9, 2005, at 7:30 p.m. Ring in 2005, the year of the Rooster, at the Curb Event Center! A crowd favorite last year, the return of the Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats promises to be an extraordinary show seen no where else in Nashville. Don’t miss this opportunity to see such a spectacular event with beautiful costumes, skilled showmanship, and amazing acrobatics. We have set up a SPECIAL ticket price for Belmont University Faculty/Staff and Students bearing a BU ID: $8 ticket price (totaling $10.24 after tax and fee), limit 6 per person. Prices for non-Belmont folks are $15 Adults and $8 Children under 12.
The next Staff Meeting will be on Thursday, February 10 at 1:00 p.m. in the Beaman Student Life Center Rooms A and B.
Belmont’s Department of Education will host a one-hour Orientation to Teaching Session on Monday, February 14. The session will be held in the Bunch Library Multi Media Room on the 2nd floor. Topics will include Conceptual Framework, Department of Education Processes, Teacher Interviews, Practicum Placement, Licensure, Praxis Exams and Live text. There are two times students can attend that day: 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. This will be a very informative session and is mandatory for all Undergraduate and M.A.T Education students. Contact Julie Hullett 460.5483 with questions.
The Center for Entrepreneurship and the Center for Business Ethics will present Fr. Robert A. Sirico, Co-founder and President of the Acton Institute, on Tuesday, February 15. A reception will be held at 4:45 p.m. with the address at 5:15 p.m.
Dr. Robbie Pinter will have a book signing for her book, For This Child I Prayed, at David-Kidd Booksellers on Monday, February 28 at 6:00 p.m.
Parents and Family Weekend is April 8-10. For more information,